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For what it's worth, as it certainly may not appeal to most people, but we have a water tank in a closet holding water for our weekly WC's. In this case it's a round, plastic, water tank from Home Depot and is 55G. Very cheap. I keep dechlorinated water in the tank and in the top cover, I...

In brief, I needed riparian pants for nitrate reduction. I created this "bamboo forest" because the inhabitants have historically uprooted or destroyed every aquatic plant I've tried and eat floaters like their brine shrimp! In particular the tank that will see this has Oscars and pacu's in it...

I was a theoretical physicist in the 1970s-1980s and an artist specializing in mixed media when I worked in New York City long ago. Eventually became a high end audio electronics and loudspeaker designer which I am to this day. I now have 4 tanks ranging from 75 to 125 and all South American...

August 2021 TFF TOTM: This is our 75 gallon, Blue Dream Riparian Forest Tank. We replaced the tank's cover with plastic lighting grid from a hardware store to support the stalks. The Lucky Bamboo is rooted in the gravel. So long as the leaves are above the water, the bamboo grows like mad. This...

This won't tell you where the voltage leaking into the water is from but it will protect you from dangerous shock potential or may totally eliminate the stray voltage in the water. Perhaps someone can suggest the most inert metal but if you run a heavy, solid wire into the tank and say, run it...

Would water storage in a separate vessel work for you? Or adding a Refugium? You could add nitrate loving plants in such a vessel such that it would, over a period of a week or so, would basically remove them from that stored water. More or less the plants will grow as much as there are...

VERY interesting and educational, thank you. Could one then surmise, or is it probable that in a healthy, fully cycled, closed aquatic system, that there would be no ammonia or ammonium available so the nitrates would then be the only food source, hence the dramatic reduction? I found little or...

I completely agree with everything you've said. The chronic high nitrates prior to the riparian's saw me changing 50% twice a week! And that only kept it down to 40ppm! The WC's stress is definitely unwelcome, I agree. I imagine the nitrates in the supply is very inconvenient. I'm lucky as...

I have a heavily overstocked 125 long with an Oscar, 3 pacu's, and a pleco all over 12" long plus 2 parrots and 5 silver dollars. We are setting up a 300 for these brutes as they grew much faster than we had anticipated (we bought them as 1" juveniles less than 2 years ago!). The bioload is very...

Hello, I'm currently an audio electronics and loudspeaker designer, an artist and a foodie who misses NYC, now in California. Most of my works are mixed media, exhibition prints and are all abstracts. I have 3 tanks. A 125 long with Oscars, pacu's, plecos, silver dollars and parrots, a 120...